Industry committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to begin by discussing the proposal to give the CRTC the authority to impose conditions on companies that resell telecommunications services provided to them by other carriers. Currently we do not have direct jurisdiction over these companies to require th

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for this opportunity to talk about broadband Internet services and the recent regulatory action taken by the CRTC to increase access in rural and remote areas. My name is Chris Seidl, and I am the executive director of Telecommunications at the Canadian Rad

Industry committee  Yes. Concerning the CRTC program, we do have an open consultation right now that will define the details. The commission has defined certain aspects of the program. One key component of that is it includes fixed broadband, so your wire line connections into the home, but also m

Industry committee  I think as part of the project of designing the fund we're also working closely with ISED to determine where those 18% are specifically. We will be developing detailed information on the actual state of broadband deployment at the new targets that the CRTC has set. We will be wor

Industry committee  Exactly. We set the target back in 2011 that by the end of 2015 everybody would have 5 megabits down and 1 megabit up. It was an aspirational target. We didn't put any funds towards that, and we figured government and private sector would achieve that. With the infrastructure tha

Industry committee  Exactly.

Industry committee  Also, if you go to the satellite-dependent communities, it's obviously just exacerbated in terms of what they can get. Daily usage is obviously a very important aspect, because they are limited in how much they can use. We heard tremendous testimony at the hearing we had last Apr

Industry committee  Obviously video is a large proportion of the usage, but no, we were looking forward to the Internet of things and other applications. Once you start connecting devices and precision agriculture, everything else, you'll see a further explosion of the requirements. That's why the u

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  I can talk to net neutrality. The commission just issued a decision recently on another portion of our regulations concerning net neutrality. We have had net neutrality regulations since 2009 in terms of not blocking, or slowing down, or prioritizing certain traffic over other.

Industry committee  The U.S. was on a path similar to ours. They had a lot of legal issues to get through in terms of the Title I and Title II, if you're familiar with the debate that's going on there. Obviously the latest view from the FCC is to change that direction and go another route. We'll see

Industry committee  Certainly it affects the ecosystem in application development. Certainly we're part of that ecosystem. In Canada we've obviously set strong net neutrality rules to allow innovation to occur at the edges of the smaller providers and not be dominated by the larger application provi

Industry committee  That is the CRTC fund that we put in place. As I mentioned earlier, we have an open consultation now, so those details are being worked out. Part of the fund design means there needs to be some level of government funding on the table as well. There is some pre-selection or pri

Industry committee  Yes, and the private sector is also building out in that time frame, as well, so we'll some movement. That's why we set a target of 90% getting to the 50/10 by 2021, and that's based on the private sector continuing to invest, other government programs, and building last-mile, or

Industry committee  Absolutely. Even some of the larger connectivity projects.... The $750 million is our contribution. Obviously, there will be private sector and public sector aspects to that, so that $750 million will grow to whatever amount is matched in that. There are some projects that are in